Research Papers on the Economics of Networks

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  • Access and Interconnection Pricing: How Efficient is the Efficient Component Pricing Rule? by Nicholas Economides and Lawrence J. White, The Antitrust Bulletin, vol. XL, no. 3, pp. 557-579.
  • Benefits and Pitfalls of Network Interconnection, by Nicholas Economides and Glenn Woroch, Discussion Paper no. EC-92-31, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • Coming Apart, Coming Together: The AT&T Breakup (Round Three) and the Remonopolization of Telecommunications, by Nicholas Economides, SternBusiness, Spring / Summer 2001
  • Comment of Nicholas S. Economides on the Revised Proposed Final Judgment in United States v. Microsoft, dated 1/24/02 [HTML]
  • Commentary on Antitrust Economics of Credit Card Networks, by Nicholas Economides, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November-December 1995, pp. 60-63. 
  • Compatibility and Market Structure, by Nicholas Economides, Discussion Paper EC-91-16, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • Compatibility and Market Structure for Network Goods, by Nicholas Economides and Fredrick Flyer, Discussion Paper EC-98-02, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • Compatibility and the Creation of Shared Networks, in Electronic Services Networks: A Business and Public Policy Challenge, by Nicholas Economides, edited by Margaret Guerin-Calvert and Steven Wildman, Praeger Publishing Inc., New York: 1991.
  • Competition and Integration Among Complements, and Network Market Structure, by Nicholas Economides and Steven C. Salop, Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. XL, no. 1 (1992), pp. 105- 123. [Abstract]
  • Competition and Vertical Integration in the Computing Industry, by Nicholas Economides, in Competition, Innovation, and the Role of Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace, Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Thomas M. Lenard (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999.
    Competition Policy in Network Industries: An Introduction, in Dennis Jansen (ed.)The New Economy and Beyond: Past, Present and Future Edward Elgar (2006)
  • Critical Mass and Network Evolution in Telecommunications, by Nicholas Economides, and Charles Himmelberg, in Toward a Competitive Telecommunications Industry: Selected Papers from the 1994 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Gerard Brock (ed.), 1995. [Abstract]
  • Critical Mass and Network Size with Application to the US Fax Market, by Nicholas Economides and Charles Himmelberg, Discussion Paper no. EC-95-11, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • Desirability of Compatibility in the Absence of Network Externalities, by Nicholas Economides, American Economic Review, vol. 79, (December 1989), no. 5, pp. 1165-1181. [Abstract] [Acrobat ~1.9Mb]
  • "Dial 'C' for Competition," by Nicholas Economides, SternBusiness, Fall 2003.
  • The Division of Markets is Limited by the Extent of Liquidity, by Nicholas Economides and Aloysius Siow, American Economic Review, vol. 78, no. 1 (March 1988), pp. 108-121. [Abstract]
  • Durable Goods Monopoly with Network Externalities with Application to the PC Operating Systems Market, by Nicholas Economides, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, vol. 1, no. 3 (2000). [Abstract] 
    The Economics of the Internet, by Nicholas Economides, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, London: Macmillan, 2007.
    The Economics of the Internet Backbone, by Nicholas Economides, in Ingo Vogelsang (ed.) Handbook of Telecommunications. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishers.
  • The Economics of Networks, by Nicholas Economides, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 673-699 (October 1996). [Abstract]
  • Electronic Call Market Trading, by Nicholas Economides and Robert Schwartz, Journal of Portfolio Management, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 10-18, (Spring 1995). [Abstract]
  • Equilibrium Fee Schedules in a Monopolist Call Market, by Nicholas Economides and Jeff Heisler, Discussion Paper no. EC-94-15, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • Equity Trading Practices and Market Structure: Assessing Asset Managers' Demand for Immediacy, by Nicholas Economides and Robert A. Schwartz, Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, vol. 4, no. 4, (November 1995) pp. 1-46. [Abstract]
  • Federal Deposit Insurance: Economic Efficiency or Politics? by Nicholas Economides and R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia, Regulation, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 1999)

  • Hit and Miss: Leverage, Sacrifice, and Refusal to Deal and the Supreme Court Decision in Trinko, by Nicholas Economides, NET Institute Working Paper #05-32 (December 2005)
  • How to Enhance Market Liquidity, by Nicholas Economides, in R. Schwartz (ed.) Global Equity Markets, Irwin Professional. New York: 1995. [Abstract]
  • The Impact of the Internet on Financial Markets by Nicholas Economides, Journal of Financial Transformation, vol. 1, no. 1 (2001), pp. 8-13.
  • The Incentive for Non-Price Discrimination by an Input Monopolist, by Nicholas Economides, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 16 (May 1998), pp. 271-284.
    The Incentive for Vertical Integration, by Nicholas Economides, mimeo., January 2005
  • The Incentive of a Monopolist to Provide All Goods, by Nicholas Economides, Discussion Paper EC-95-09, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • The Inefficiency of the ECPR Yet Again: A Reply to Larson, by Nicholas Economides and Lawrence J. White, The Antitrust Bulletin vol. XLIII (1998), no. 2, pp. 429-444. [Abstract]
    Linux vs. Windows: A comparison of application and platform innovation incentives for open source and proprietary software platforms by Nicholas Economides and Evangelos Katsamakas), in Juergen Bitzer and Philipp J.H. Schroeder (eds.) The Economics of Open Source Software Development, Elsevier Publishers, 2006.
  • Making the Trade: Equity Trading Practices and Market Structure - 1994, by Nicholas Economides and Robert A. Schwartz, TraderForum, Institutional Investor. [Abstract]
  • The Microsoft Antitrust Case, by Nicholas Economides, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade: From Theory to Policy vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-39 (August 2001). [Abstract]
  • The Microsoft Antitrust Case: Rejoinder, by Nicholas Economides, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade: From Theory to Policy (August 2001), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 71-79.
  • Mixed Bundling in Duopoly, by Nicholas Economides, Discussion Paper EC-93-29, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U. [Abstract]
  • A Monopolist's Incentive to Invite Competitors to Enter in Telecommunications Services, by Nicholas Economides, in Gerard Pogorel (ed.), Global Telecommunications Strategies and Technological Changes, pp. 227-239. Elsevier. Amsterdam: 1993. 
  • Monopolistic Competition with Two-Part Tariffs, by Nicholas Economides and Steven S. Wildman
    Net Neurality, Non-Discrimination, and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet, by Nicholas Economides, NET Institute Working Paper #07-03 (March 2007).  
  • Network Economics with Application to Finance, by Nicholas Economides, Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, vol. 2, no. 5, (December 1993), pp. 89-97. [Abstract]
  • Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter by Nicholas Economides, European Journal of Political Economy vol. 12, (1996), pp. 211-232. [Abstract]
  • Networks and Compatibility: Implications for Antitrust, by Nicholas Economides and Lawrence J. White, European Economic Review, vol. 38, (March 1994), pp. 651-662. [Abstract]
  • One-Way Networks, Two-Way Networks, Compatibility, and Antitrust, by Nicholas Economides and Lawrence J. White, in Opening Networks to Competition: The Regulation and Pricing of Access. David Gabel and David Weiman (eds.). Kluwer Academic Press. 1996. [Abstract]
  • A Parimutuel Market Microstructure for Contingent Claims Trading, by Jeffrey Lange and Nicholas Economides,(2004), European Financial Management, forthcoming [Abstract]
  • The Political Economy of Branching Restrictions and Deposit Insurance: A Model of Monopolistic Competition of Small and Large Banks, by Nicholas Economides, R. Glenn Hubbard and Darius Palia, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. XXXIX (October 1996), pp. 667-704. [Abstract]
  • Principles of Interconnection: A Response to "Regulation of Access to Vertically-Integrated Natural Monopolies," submitted to the New Zealand Ministry of Commerce, by Nicholas Economides, [Abstract]
    Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects, by Nicholas Economides and Brian Viard, NET Institute Working Paper, June 2006.
  • Proposal to the Bank of Greece on the Organization of Primary and Secondary Markets in Greek State Bills, Notes, and Bonds, by Nicholas Economides [Abstract]
    Public Policy in Network Industries, by Nicholas Economides in Paolo Buccirossi (ed.), Handbook of Antitrust Economics, Cambridge, The MIT Press (2006).
  • Quality Choice and Vertical Integration, by Nicholas Economides, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 17 (1999), pp. 903-914. [Abstract]
    Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service, by Nicholas Economides, Katja Seim and V. Brian Viard, October 2007
  • "The Real Losers in the Microsoft Anti-Trust Case," by Nicholas Economides SternBusiness, Spring / Summer 2000.
  • Real Options and the Costs of the Local Telecommunications Network , by Nicholas Economides, forthcoming in The New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implications for Cost Models in Telecommunications, James Alleman and Eli Noam (eds.), Kluwer, 2000. [Abstract]
  • Regulatory Pricing Policies to Neutralize Network Dominance, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 5, no. 4, (1996), pp. 1013-1028, by Nicholas Economides, Giuseppe Lopomo and Glenn Woroch. [Abstract]
  • Special Issue on Network Economics: Business Conduct and Market Structure, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 669-671 (October 1996), by Nicholas Economides and David Encaoua.
    Standards Coalitions Formation and Market Structure in Network Industries, by Nicholas Economides and Andrzej Skrzypacz, Working Paper no. EC-03-08, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U.
  • Strategic Commitments and the Principle of Reciprocity in Interconnection Pricing, Stern School of Business, N.Y.U., by Nicholas Economides, Giuseppe Lopomo and Glenn Woroch.
  • The Quality of Complex Systems and Industry Structure by by Nicholas Economides and William Lehr, in William Lehr (ed.), Quality and Reliability of Telecommunications Infrastructure. Lawrence Erlbaum. Hillsdale: 1994. [Abstract]
  • Technical Standards Coalitions for Network Goods, by Nicholas Economides and Fredrick Flyer, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique vol. 49/50 (1998), pp. 361-380.
  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and its Impact, by Nicholas Economides, Japan and the World Economy (1999). [Abstract]
    Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction, by Nicholas Economides, in Richard R. Nelson (ed.) The Limits and Complexity of Organizations, Russell Sage Foundation Press, New York, 2005.
  • The Tragic Inefficiency of M-ECPR, by Nicholas Economides, (Ed) Shampine, A. (2003), Down to the Wire: Studies in the Diffusion and Regulation of Telecommunications Technologies. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, NY [Abstract]
    Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry, by Nicholas Economides and Evangelos Katsamakas, Management Science vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1057-1071 (July 2006).
  • Variable Compatibility Without Network Externalities, by Nicholas Economides, Discussion Paper No. 157, Center for Economic Policy Research, Department of Economics, Stanford University. [Abstract]
  • United States v. Microsoft: A Failure of Antitrust in the New Economy, by Nicholas Economides, UWLA Law Review, April 2001
  • US Telecommunications Today, October 2002 by Nicholas Economides, IS Management Handbook Brown, Carol V. and Topi, Heikki (Eds). 2003. Auerbach Publications, Boca Raton, FL. [Abstract]
  • US Telecommunications Today, April 1999 by Nicholas Economides, Handbook of IS Management (1999). [Abstract] 
  • US Telecommunications Today, by Nicholas Economides, Business Economics (April 1998). [Abstract]
    Vertical Leverage and the Sacrifice Principle: Why The Supreme Court Got Trinko Wrong, by Nicholas Economides, forthcoming, New York University Annual Survey of American Law (2005).

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